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Becoming-Being Complementarity: An Account of the Yin-Yang Metaphysical Vision of the Yi-Jing (Slovak translation)
Filozofia (Philosophy) (2004)
  • Bo Mou, San Jose State University
Abstract

The concepts of ’being’ and ’becoming-extincting’ have been considered as two most basic metaphisical categories in philosophy that are intended to capture two fundamental characters or aspects of the world: the term ’being’ is intended to denote the stable, regular, definite, unchanging aspect or layer of existing things, while the term ’becoming-extincting’ is intended to denote the unstable, irregular, indefinite, changing aspect of layer of existing things. However, it has been a highly controversial issue how to look at the relation between these two fundamental characters of the world and thus between the two categories of being and becoming-extincting: Which one is more fundamental? There have been two basic tendencies. One (’becoming-extincting-over-being approach’) is to maintain overwhelming priority of becoming-extincting over being, while the other (’being-over-becoming-extincting approach’) is to champion overwhelming priority of being over becoming-extincting. In this paper its author intends to present a third approach to this perennial metaphysical issues based on, and through his interpretive elaboration of the Yin-Yang metaphysical vision of the ancient Chinese Classical Book Yi-Jing (I Ching).

Keywords
  • Yin-Yang
Disciplines
Publication Date
2004
Citation Information
Bo Mou. "Becoming-Being Complementarity: An Account of the Yin-Yang Metaphysical Vision of the Yi-Jing (Slovak translation)" Filozofia (Philosophy) Vol. 59 Iss. 2 (2004)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/bo_mou/26/